In the spirit of June as Pride month, I thought it would be fun to showcase the colors of the intertidal. All of these are photos that I’ve taken at various sites since January 2019. Here goes! Red, including pink Orange Yellow, including gold and ochre Green Blue Purple And there you have it! Happy…
Month: June 2019
Algae at Pigeon Point
The annual Snapshot Cal Coast period is scheduled to coincide with the best midsummer low tides, to maximize opportunities for people to get out and blitz the intertidal. The whole idea of Snapshot Cal Coast is to document as much biodiversity as possible, to render a comprehensive account of what our coastal and nearshore biota…
Counting critters
Professor Emeritus John Pearse has been monitoring intertidal areas in the Monterey Bay region since the early 1970s. Here on the north end of Monterey Bay, he set up two research sites: Opal Cliffs in 1972 and Soquel Point in 1970. These sites are separated by about 975 meters (3200 feet) as the gull flies….